Roberta Munroe screened short film submissions at Sundance for five years, and is an award-winning short filmmaker in her own right. From the first draft of your script to casting, production, editing, and distribution, this is your one-stop primer for breaking into the business.

How Not to Sign a Film Contract

TFC, in conjunction with Michelle Mower of Imagination Worldwide, is pleased to release this entertaining and informative new book, written by Roberta Marie Munroe (How NOT To Make A Short Film), with contributions by TFC’s own Orly Ravid.

Insider's Guide To Independent Film Distribution

This comprehensive manual for filmmakers and producers dedicated to film distribution and the marketplace.

The Producer's Guide to Transmedia

The Producer's Guide to Transmedia offers advice on how to fund, develop, produce and distribute content across multiple platforms.

Selling Your Film Outside the US

Our follow up to Selling Your Film Without Selling Your Soul. This book looks at distribution in Europe primarily, with case studies from films that have released there.

Selling Your Film Without Selling Your Soul

Case studies of mainly low budget indie films that forged their own paths to distribution.

Think Outside the Box Office

The book is a break through step-by-step nuts and bolts guide to distributing and marketing a film.

David Rowley specializes in motion graphics for film and non-profits; he recently did all the graphics and the titles for 2013 Sundance award-winning doc Dirty Wars.

Handcrafted Films

Designer/filmmaker Evan Mather is an an independent filmmaker and landscape architect based in Los Angeles known for his short films spanning multiple genres—including animation, documentary, essay, music video, and film title design.

Pride themselves on offering directors, producers and post supervisors a personal and collaborative experience. They take on very few projects, so each project gets full attention. Films include: Jeff, Who Lives at Home; John Carpenter’s The Ward; Up in the Air, and Juno

Voodoodog

London based VooDooDog works with many Hollywood studios and TV Studios, but also works with indie filmmakers.

Swedish based crowdfunding. Funding is provided through a combination of crowd-funding and public grants. Crowd Culture does not take a percentage of contributions - all the money goes to the projects!

Crowdfunding Bible

The Crowdfunding Bible shows you how to launch, market and successfully operate a high-tech fundraising campaign, regardless of your chosen industry, scope or budget.

Crowdfunding for Filmmakers

Crowdrise

Flattr

Fund It

Crowdfunding specifically for Irish artists. Donations can be made worldwide.

How to crack the Kickstarter code

Ideame

Crowdfunding for Latin and South American artists

IndieGoGo

International

Kachingle

Kickstarter

U.S./UK/Canada/Australia only

Kickstarter For Filmmakers

The Kickstarter Handbook

Lucas McNelly

ManyMade

Crowdfunding for Nordic based projects.

Pozible

Australia

Pozible

UK

Rockethub

U.S. and Canada

Seed & Spark

A SELECTIVE crowdfunding platform. Before approving a project, the necessary components for a successful campaign are in place: A strong team; the seed of a great film; and a compelling purpose.

It is important when doing digital distribution to mainstream platforms that one knows the terms that one’s aggregator has with the platforms and also if the aggregator goes through a middleman or two. This is especially important with regard to Cable VOD, but also in terms of negotiating an SVOD license/deal. Of course one wants to also compare fees and marketing support.

Purchase bandwidth in either 20 or 240 GB chunks, paid in advance and filmmaker receives roughly 77% of revenue.

FilmBuff

Video-on-demand distribution is the foundation of their business. iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Netflix, XBox, Vudu, CinemaNow, Hulu etc. as well as cable VOD.

TFC Direct

Direct digital distribution to major platforms, aggregation services

Go Digital

Aggregator specializing in tailored and day-and-date releases for independent and festival-driven content

Gravitas

KinoNation

KinoNation makes it fast and simple for independent films — from anywhere on the planet — to get paid digital distribution on iTunes, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Vudu — and dozens of other digital outlets around the world.

Might Entertainment

They work with Lionsgate (though just 1 fee), very selective leaning toward commercial.

Momedia

Founded in 2013 by a team of veterans from Sky, BBC, Channel 5, Warner, NBCU and Endemol.

Quiver Digital

Aggregator provides access to worldwide download and streaming distribution platforms for a flat-fee

TFC’s motto is “be everywhere.” Your film should be in every digital store that is viable and reaching audiences/consumers. And you are your own brand and hopefully engaging audiences directly, so backend your own site(s) and social networking pages too. These services will help you do that. And for more broad digital distribution in terms of mainstream platforms (such as iTunes, Netflix and Hulu) please see the Digital Distribution—Aggregation to Mainstream Platforms section below.

Big Star

Curated cross-platform platform. Niche- and festival-focused lately.

Blip.tv

Platform focused on web series.

Busk Films

BuskFilms is a video-on-demand site showcasing the best in independent queer film.

Chill

Now closed as of December 15, 2013

Constellation

now defunct

Distribber

Sold to Digi Worldwide in May 2014 with new plans to include partnerships with Redbox, Redbox Instant, Walmart, VuDu, Google Play etc.

Distrify

Streaming on website and Facebook and with affiliate program. Big management change happened in early 2015.

Dynamo Player

streaming on website and Facebook

Eggup

Download worldwide off your site. Geo-filtering possible. Perhaps they are regrouping, as site is down.

Fans Of Film

A DIY platform.

The Film Collaborative

Direct digital

FlickLaunch

Platform focused on social interaction online.

Indieflix

Aggregator (though not always direct) and platform. Handles shorts and has a "festival-in-a-box" initiative.

Inmoo

Platform

Kanopy Streaming

Provides streaming to educational institutions and libraries.

Maxcast

Helps you share your videos online in an effective and high quality manner.

Mubi

A digital platform for pedigree art house film. Worldwide but mostly in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.

Online Film

A legal distribution platform for German and international films. Films of all genres can be distributed online and marketed cost effectively.

OpenFilm

Streaming platform for shorts and features. May be on its way out, even though it still appears online.

Premiere Digital

It is possible to go direct with them for any platform which they also have an accounting deal with. TFC Direct (Flat Fee) and Distribber use them.

California Newsreel has produced and distributed cutting-edge social issue films for activists and educators since 1968. Today it is the oldest, independent non-profit documentary center in the country and the first systematically to integrate media production and distribution with the media needs of contemporary social change movements.

Cinema Eye Honors

The Cinema Eye honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking were founded in late 2007 to recognize and honor exemplary craft and innovation in nonfiction film. Cinema Eye’s mission is to advocate for, recognize and promote the highest commitment to rigor and artistry in the nonfiction field. The Cinema Eye Honors recognize feature and short-length films with an emphasis on nonfiction films made for public distribution, whether primarily theatrical, festival or broadcast.

Collective Eye Films

Educational film distribution and production company providing unique perspectives by exploring social, political, environmental, and spiritual issues to bring provocative and entertaining stories to the screen.

Documentary Educational Resources

Founded in 1968. Promote thought-provoking documentary film and media for learning about the people and cultures of the world. Digital streaming services available.

Docuseek2

Essential documentary films for higher education

Espresso Media

“Factual Entertainment without the froth.” Established over 22 years ago, Espresso Media International (formerly Espresso TV) started off life as a production company developing magazine programmes, documentaries and strands for the BBC and TVS (ITV).
The mid to late 1990’s saw Espresso involved in setting up a sports programming and distribution service to Latin America, and Hispanic North America producing a daily news and programming service, delivered to over 20 Latin American channels in three languages.
Since the late 1990’s Espresso’s focus has rested on distribution with well-established international contacts in the documentary and factual entertainment genres.

Fanlight Productions

Distributes films and videos on social issues including health care, mental health, professional ethics, aging and gerontology, the workplace, gender and family issues.

Filmbank Media

UK based company providing content to schools, hotels, ferries, trains, film societies and community film groups. It operates in over 75 international countries and territories including most of the major hotel chains.

Films Media Group

Films Media Group, an Infobase Learning Company, is a premier source of high-quality video on academic, vocational, and life-skills topics. With thousands of outstanding educational videos—many exclusive—from the world's most recognized producers, they serve the needs of schools, colleges, libraries, the medical community, and other institutions with the broadest and deepest range of content available.

Journeyman Pictures

For over twenty years Journeyman has distributed and co-produced, provocative, profound, and original factual content, working with the top players in the industry. They are one of the leading independent suppliers of award winning stories to the world broadcast market and pride ourselves on a position at the spearhead of the factual agenda. Their catalogue covers a myriad of subjects and styles; commercial, current affairs, and feature docs, and they attempt to keep "a central journalistic ethic" at the root of the company.

Kanopy

Provides streaming to educational institutions and libraries.

Media Education Foundation

Nonprofit producer and distributor of films used widely in academia and with a strong reputation among professors and media librarians.

Moving Images

Canadian based. Avant-garde works by some of Canada's internationally acclaimed media artists and award-winning documentaries, animation, short fiction and personal narrative works.

New Day Films

A membership based collective in service of social justice documentaries.

NewFilmMarketing

NewFilmMarketing is a consulting service for do-it-yourself film distribution to universities, K-12, libraries, and specialty markets. They are not film distributors and will never take a percentage of a filmmaker's profit and encourage filmmakers to succeed as their own distributor.

Passion River

Since 1998, Passion River Films has acquired, distributed and represented unique independent films and documentaries. Their award winning and festival favorite features have made their home on shelves of various notable film libraries and institutions. Their catalogue represents films on nearly every topic including Multicultural Studies, Women’s Studies, Medical Studies and Advances, Religious and Spiritual studies, Environmentalism, Aging, Drug Addiction, Gay/Lesbian/Transgender, etc.

Roco International

International and Educational distribution for documentaries.

Swank Digital Campus

Third World Newsreel

Large catalog; Third World Newsreel (TWN) is an alternative media arts organization that fosters the creation, appreciation and dissemination of independent film and video by and about people of color and social justice issues.

Video Project

Environmental Media; Their mission is to distribute the very best in educational media and documentary programming on critical environmental, global and social issues to the widest possible audience worldwide, including colleges, schools, libraries, businesses, religious groups, government agencies and non-governmental organizations.

These distributors take all rights in either North America, foreign or worldwide

Breaking Glass Pictures

Cinema Guild

Cinema Guild is a distributor of independent, foreign and documentary films.

CMD Distribution

CMD Distribution is a leader in worldwide marketing and distribution of faith based products.

Dark Sky Films

independent film production and distribution label specializing in horror/genre films

Echolight Studios

EchoLight Studios has a full film distribution platform servicing theatrical, home video, digital/VOD and broadcast in both US domestic and international markets for families of faith.

Film Movement

Film Movement is a full service North American distributor of award-winning independent and foreign film. They implement traditional film distribution methods like the theatrical release, DVD sales, DVD rentals, and television.

First Run Features

First Run remains one of the largest independent theatrical and home video distributors in the United States, releasing 12 to 15 films a year in theaters nationwide and 40 to 50 videos and DVDs annually.

Freestyle Digital Media

Icarus Films

Icarus Films is a leading distributor of documentary films.

Kino Lorber

Kino Lorber Inc is a New York-based theatrical distributor and DVD label.

Magnolia Pictures

Magnolia Pictures is the theatrical and home entertainment distribution arm of Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban’s 2929 Entertainment, specializing in a unique and eclectic slate of films, mainly high profile festival fare.

The Orchard

US based, exclusive digital distribution service, offers placement on all major digital outlets, including internationally when able.

Oscilloscope

Oscilloscope Pictures is a full-service film distribution company releasing independently produced English and foreign language films and documentaries into the U.S. theatrical marketplace.

Phase 4 Films

full range of services relating to the sales, marketing, licensing and distribution of feature films, television and special interest content across all media in the North American market.. Focuses on: Theatrical, Home Entertainment, Television, VOD & Digital Media.

Virgil Films

Visit Films

a worldwide film sales company specializing in director driven work that premieres at the world's top tier film festivals

Zeitgeist Films

Zeitgeist films are strongly auteur-driven and have a distinct visual style and unique content.

These channels represent the next wave of video creation. Whether one off short films or episodic series, online channels & MCNs (multi channel networks) offer creators more opportunities to build up a fanbase and earn a living than traditional film distributors.

Above Average

Primarily an episodic comedy channel created by the folks at Broadway Video. Also have a Youtube channel.

Awesomeness TV

The AwesomenessTV Network is a network for people who are building their channels on YouTube and want to learn to make better videos, grow a subscriber base, & meet other creators doing the same.

Big Frame

Big Frame is a leading media company in the YouTube entertainment space. They are discerning about the channels they partner with, but can help your channel land lucrative ad partners like Chevrolet, The Home Depot, Sony, Virgin, Levis, Fox.

DanceOn

DanceOn is the next generation of dance entertainment,
creating premium programming ranging from original
dance videos, reality competition shows, docu-series,
and scripted content to reach a growing global audience.

Full Screen

Fullscreen helps video creators earn more money with premium ad inventory, brand integration opportunities and more. The Fullscreen Platform gives you full transparency into your earnings. Must apply for acceptance to the platform.

Machinima

Next generation video entertainment network for the gamer lifestyle aimed at young males around the world. Seeks content from top gamers, funniest personalities, and sickest video creators. Must apply for partnership.

Maker Studios

Maker is the #1 producer and distributor of online video attracting 4.5 billion+ monthly views and 340 million+ subscribers. Home to online video’s top digital stars, channels and content.

My Damn Channel

My Damn Channel is a leading entertainment studio and distributor of premium content. This includes distribution on My Damn Channel, YouTube and other online, mobile and IPTV platforms.

Tastemade

Tastemade is dedicated to connecting the world through food and building a scalable network of culinary tastemakers who share a passion for creating amazing programming for a global community of food lovers.

TFC members receive a discount but prices vary and are based pending the budget and other variables.

Reiff & Associates

Reiff & Associates, LLC specializes in E&O insurance which is now needed even for digital distribution deals.TFC members receive a discount but prices vary and are based pending the budget and other variables.

Short term/weekend programs dedicated to educating filmmakers on the latest trends and developments in the independent film industry

Binger Filmlab

Binger Filmlab is an Amsterdam based international feature-film and documentary development centre.

DIY Days

FREE to participants and organized by volunteers—DIY Days is about the accessibility of ideas, resources and networking that can enable creators to fund, create, distribute and sustain.

DOK Incubator

DOK.Incubator is a new training initiative providing support to European documentaries in a rough cut stage. It is open to teams—producer, director and film editor—working on a strong and creative documentary with promising international potential.

Film Independent

The Film Independent Forum is a weekend packed with unbridled truth, inspirational success stories and a chance to connect one on one with working artists who are thriving in changing times.

IFP

A unique year-long mentorship program for first-time feature directors focusing exclusively on low-budget features (<$1million).

Living Spirit Pictures

Training courses for directors, screenwriters, producers and documentary filmmakers based in London.

London Film Academy

LFA runs professional-standard practical training in all the key areas of filmmaking. All tutors are working professionals.

Maine Media

Our filmmaking program is known around the world for its hands-on style, top-tier equipment, and award-winning faculty. Learn from the best on the best equipment while enjoying the unparalleled beauty of coastal Maine.

Met Film School

London based, weekend course designed to provide a fun, hands-on introduction to the basics of direction, sound and editing and will equip you with basic technical knowledge in each of these areas.

National Screen Institute

Based in Winnipeg Canada. After more than 25 years of training and with over 720 alumni, NSI continues to develop and deliver courses to meet the industry’s needs.

Raindance

Raindance tutors are all working industry professionals who will teach you how films are really made. You will have access to insider information, and most importantly you will meet other filmmakers, all working towards similar goals.

These sites all provide guidance, tips, best practices, case studies and a place for fellow indie artists to congregate.

Adventist Filmmakers

For Christian filmmakers (now defunct)

British Council

Chris Jones Blog

The Collaborators

The Film Collaborative's "Facebook-for-Filmmakers". You can also access it via TFC's website on the Distripedia page,

Female Filmmaking Collective on Facebook

Filmmaker's Alliance

Filmmaker Magazine

Filmmakers Social Network

Indie Mogul

IndieProducer.net

Linkedin groups

Associated Producers Worldwide, Film and Television Professionals, Producers Network, Indie Film Producers and Directors

MicroFilmmaker Magazine

Digital Content Producer

Reel Ladies

Roberta Munroe

Short Film

Shooting People

Stage 32

The Stage 32 community is strictly for people working in or with a desire to work in film or theater. It’s a place to gather, to discuss and develop projects.

Starcast Auditions

A professional online service that advances actors based solely on the merit of superior talent. StarCast employs top casting directors to evaluate aspiring and up-and-coming actors and posts the very best performances as a resource for industry professionals.

The Box Office Analyst™ Report is a data-centric publication that provides unique, relevant and actionable information to film professionals and others interested in the performance of movies at the box office.

Most of these grants support outreach and audience engagement strategies. We have not included funding bodies that support the development or production of films.

Bertha BritDoc Connect Fund

The first European-based outreach and engagement fund. Open to filmmakers from around the world. The fund is looking to support smart, strategic outreach campaigns for ambitious independent documentary films with a social issue at their core.

Bloody Disgusting Finishing Fund

Bloody Disgusting (in association with The Collective) is looking for feature-length (70-110 minute) horror, sci-fi/thriller or other films in this genre from around the world. Up to $100K in finishing funds.

Ford Foundation JustFilms

JustFilms focuses on film, video and digital works that show courageous people confronting difficult issues and actively pursuing a more just, secure and sustainable world. Investing $10 million a year over five years in documentary projects.

Media Arts Grants

Grant awards assist artists in making recently completed works available to public audiences. Assists artists in meeting expenses such as: duplication of preview, screening, and exhibition copies; promotional materials including documentation and schematics of media-installation and new-media works.

SANAD Fund

SANAD is the Development and Post-Production Fund of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival (ADFF). Provides talented filmmakers from the Arab world with meaningful support from within the region towards the development or completion of their narrative and documentary feature-length films. Post-production: Up to 60,000 USD per project

San Francisco Film Society KRF Grant

The SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants support feature narrative films that through plot, character, theme or setting explore human and civil rights, antidiscrimination, gender and sexual identity and other social issues of our time. This is NOT a documentary grant.

Women in Film Finishing Fund

Women In Film Foundation’s Film Finishing Fund (WIFF FFF) supports films by, for or about women by providing cash grants of up to $15,000 and in-kind services.

World Cinema Fund

German distributors can apply for distribution funding not exceeding 15,000 euros for the distribution of film from the WCF regions in Germany. The subsidy cannot exceed 50% of the total distribution costs.

Cyfe has developed a cloud based service that allows you to easily monitor and share all of your vital business data like Google Analytics, AdSense, MailChimp, Facebook, WordPress and more from one single location in real-time.

Export.ly

GaggleAMP

Utilize the reach of your cast and crew as well as fans to help spread your message in social media, while they have complete control in deciding exactly which messages they would like to share on which of their platforms and how frequently.

Tools to build your own social community instead of relying on Facebook, Ning etc.

BuddyPress

for Wordpress sites

Kit Digital

Formerly KickApps

Mzinga

Nationbuilder

NationBuilder is a community organizing platform that allows users to build and manage websites and offers tools to communicate with supporters. They also provide real time support and grassroots engagement.

Onesite

Socialengine

SocialGo

Social Seed

We will consult with you before a campaign on what exactly you are hoping to achieve, and create a bespoke strategy for your video.

These are service providers for grassroots marketing outreach to communities, organizations, schools, churches etc

The Bohle Company

Marketing and PR firm reaching the video game industry and associated publications and live events.

Brigade Marketing

Cultural Front Productions

David Magdael & Associates

An indie publicity firm with a good grasp on grassroots marketing.

Film Sprout

Film Sprout handles both community / event theatrical and also grassroots marketing/outreach.

Ginsberg/Libby

They are more focused on social media side of grassroots marketing.

Grace Hill Media

full-service PR and marketing firm established to reach an enormous and underserved population - religious America. An industry leader in church-based promotion,

IndieMarketing

Picture Motion

Picture Motion is a boutique marketing firm specializing in grassroots campaigns, social action, and online engagement.

Solem and Associates

PR and Marketing for environmental and public affairs issues.

The Film Collaborative

The Film Collaborative also does grassroots marketing along with its other services. Our for-profit, New American Vision, also handles grassroots outreach for Film Society of Lincoln Center, AFI Fest, Los Angeles Film Festival, sometimes Roadside Attractions, among others.

Wesscott Marketing and Distribution

Wesscott Marketing is a full-service Christian distribution and sales representative company working with Christian and Family-Focused DVDs.

This new social site has rocketed into the top 10 of all social sites on the web. If you are more inclined to use images rather than text to communicate with an audience, try Pinterest with these tools.

Pinfluence

An expert marketing team and advanced developers have created internal tools that help brands on social pinning sites grow a highly targeted large (1000+) network of followers in just 30 days.

PinPuff

Pinpuff is a free-to-use tool, aiming to accurately measure Pinterest user's influence, reach and virality on Pinterest, assign a Pinfluence score and monetary values of their pins.

Piqora

Quozio

Turn any quote into a pinnable image

Viraltag

(formerly pingraphy) Management tool for Pinterest. Schedule pins and keep your followers engaged through out the day; track Repins, Likes, Clicks and Reach for every pin; Understand what your followers like and customize your content.

Commun.it analyzes your Twitter relationships and helps to focus & engage with the right people to help you.

Contax.io

Lets you search your followers by location, other tags.

Fake Follower Check

Before you get excited that your lead actor has 1 million Twitter followers, run the account through this tool. Every account will have some kind of fake follower percentage.

Fake Followers

Check any public Twitter account to see its ratio of real to fake followers. Every account will have some kind of fake percentage. Keep it low.

FollowerWonk

Dig deeper into Twitter analytics: Who are your followers? Where are they located? When do they tweet?
Find and connect with new influencers in your niche.
Use super-actionable visualizations to compare your social graph to others.

Hootsuite

Twitter management dashboard

Listorious

Find lists of people around a topic.

MentiomMapp

Traces mentions on Twitter.

Oneforty.com

A site for an array of Twitter tools. Acquired by HubSpot.

PeerIndex

Allows you to see influence/friends using Twitter handles.

So Popularity

Sopularity helps you to add the most appropriate hashtags to your tweets.This leads to a significant increase of the searchability and popularity of your tweets.

Hiring an experienced music supervisor let's you access their ongoing relationships with the major and indie labels and publishers to ensure getting the maximum out of your music budget. Skillful negotiation of the most favorable licensing fees, terms and conditions for the music you want, and accurate "no-holes" delivery of your Music Rights Package to distributors.

Deep Freeze Music

Format Entertainment

Create the right musical tone for the project and assist with rights clearances and negotiations

These tools help you build a database of bloggers for publicity outreach. Blogger outreach is mainly about building relationships. It’s reaching out to bloggers to find out how you can help each other.

Buzz Stream

There are 2 parts to the product, an influencer outreach package and a link building package.

Easy Media List

For those who want to conduct their own publicity, this site is a fantastic resource for buying up to date media lists.

Group High

Discovery engine which consists of 13 million blogs and can be used to automate research and track engagement.

Bond Strategy works to gather clear insights on who the target audience is and then develop custom digital and offline strategies that drive success in both box office and digital sales.

B|W|R Public Relations

Offices in both New York and Los Angeles

David Magdael & Associates

Dish Communications

dominion3 PR

Donna Daniels Public Relations

Falco Ink

Fat Dot

Frank PR

Ginsberg Libby

Hook Publicity

ID-PR

inclusive PR

indie-pr

Jeremy Walker and Associates

Jeremy Walker is veteran movie publicist with twenty years of experience who has created memorable campaigns for all kinds of movies.

Justin Cook Public Relations

Justin Cook

LJPR

Lisa Rinkus

Matt Johnstone Publicity

mPRm Communications

Murphy PR

Nancy Schwartzman

An early adopter of cutting edge media tools for women's safety and dynamic storytelling, Nancy is a sought-after speaker and consultant working with college campuses, military populations, independent filmmakers, and international organizations.

(Note: They apparently cannot produce .cap or .scc files). The most powerful and flexible subtitling platform in the world. Works with YouTube, Vimeo, HTML5, and more. Embed the video anywhere. Add subtitles yourself or ask viewers to help.

Caption Depot

Captionmax

Dialogue List transcription

Closed Captioning Services, Inc.

subtitling, closed caption

dotSUB

Global Video Services

Some filmmakers have indicated that they are the cheapest (other than Zen Captions)

MacCaption and CapionMaker

$1100 might seem like a lot for a closed captioning software package (there's one for Mac, one for Windows...and that's only the entry level version), but DIY CC instead of going through a lab (or having your distributor do it for you and recoup) might save you money in the long run.

Paragon Language Services

Asian and European, close caption, transcribing, translation and subtitles

Rev

Zen Captions

much cheaper than some other services, but we have had some issues with them not correctly positioning lines to accommodate existing lower-thirds.

Services that book films with organizations and work in a more grassroots and event oriented manner. Also includes airline, correctional facilities and museum public performance licensing

Entertainment in Motion

EIM provide high quality entertainment to over 130 airlines around the world. In order to supply our airline customers with the variety of entertainment they demand, we offer first run theatrical films from Hollywood as well as first run Chinese films and the latest in theatrical releases from France.

Film Sprout

Grassroots and community distribution for independent documentaries.

Swank Motion Pictures

Swank Motion Pictures is the major non-theatrical movie distributor, online CE/CME education distributor and public performance licensing agent in venues where feature movies are shown publicly.

List of experienced trailer editors/companies. Some are creative agencies that handle all aspects of an advertising campaign.

Aspect Ratio

Trailers made for films such as Jeff Who Lives at Home, The Adventures of TinTin, and Lawless. Based in Los Angeles, CA

AV Squad

AV SQUAD is a creative advertising agency that focuses on entertainment marketing
including theatrical motion pictures, television programming, and video games.

Bill Woolery

25 years in Los Angeles, editing trailers and TV campaigns for studio movies.

Buddha Jones

Buddha Jones means a different way to create cool, unique and unexpected work.

Cinebird

Great rates for low budget indie film. Quick turn-around.

Cinefile

Domino Effect Productions

Domino Effect Productions can create an eye-catching feature film or short film trailer.

Eyeball NYC

Golden Trailer Organization

The Golden Trailer Awards recognize the creative people who make movie trailers, and the best examples of their unique art, in a gala award show. This is their directory of trailer editors and trailer houses.

Good Spot

At Goodspot, the definition of an artist is someone who can tell a story through any medium be it editing, writing, designing, or filming. Everyone who works here is a storyteller in his or her own way.

Jumpcut Creative

JumpCut (formerly Kinetic) is a movie advertising firm that has worked on campaigns for the finest in independent, foreign-language and documentary films.

While we began as a movie trailer company, we're constantly adding new divisions, new skill sets, new toys, new technologies and new ways of thinking.

Dark Soup Films (Ross Evison)

For 13+ years Ross Evison has been editing in the film advertising/marketing arena. Creating trailers, promos and TV commercials for major blockbusters to independent features all around the globe.

Tao Creative

We create all forms of audio-visual marketing materials: trailers, TV spots, special shoots, sizzle reels, motion graphics and web content from concept through finished product for theatrical film, television and home entertainment titles.

The Hive

At The Hive, we believe in talent and creativity. We have the correct film editor for your project. The http://www.hivedoes.com/editing/film-editor-los-angeles/ site appears to have some malware issues, so we've disabled linking

Trailer Park

All the capabilities are here….the trailers, TV spots, and print campaigns. The websites, widgets, and mobile applications. The featurettes, commentaries, and EPKs.

Video Pixie

Affordable trailer and other short video editing services. Editors bid for your job. Great for editing Youtube material.

Wink Creative

WINK CREATIVE is a NYC-based ad agency specializing in theatrical film marketing: trailers, in-theater previews and television ads for motion pictures.

72 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute, these services help your videos get views

Alltrailers

Brightcove

Daily Motion

Feed Company

Film Trailer.com (Europe/UK)

GodTube (for Christian content)

Grab Media

iTunes Movie Trailers

free to submit but restrictions apply, send info to trailers@mac.com

Metacafe

Trailer Addict

TrailerSpy

TubeMogul

Simplifies delivery video (including Trailers) for maximizing branding and advertising. Will need the Pro level service for commercial content.

Unruly Media

We can expose your content to hundreds of millions of unique users across our hand-picked portfolio of blogs, social media applications and cult websites. You only pay when people are actively watching and engaging with your content.

the attentionwizard.com site appears to have some malware issues, so we've disabled linking

Dynamo Video on Facebook using iFrames

Facebook Connect

Feedjit

Miro Community

A simple way to manage 10,000+ videos, no matter where they are hosted. You get a branded video portal that: is tailored to you, drives SEO directly to your site, and integrates with your existing web strategy. Excellent for video contest management.